Worship Musician Magazine September 2020 | Page 53

have an opinion about team structure or moral,
whatever it is, if you’re talking to another choir
member or band guy it doesn’t mean anything.
You’ve got to go to the person who can do
something about your opinion.
[WM] In the culture that you suggest we create
- people matter most. What are some practical
applications of “caring and connecting” from a
church staff’s perspective?
[Chad] We talk about a lot of them… ask
more questions. Instead of talking about your
achievements and yourself, ask them. Learn
people’s names, nobody wants to be on the
worship team if you keep getting called “bro,
dude, man, brother, homie, guy”. Don’t use
them to build your confidence, build their
confidence.
Have good manners. I’ve got a two year old, a
four year old, and a six year old, and what am
I trying to instill into them? Manners. “Please,”
“Thank you,” great people skills is about not
making demands but bringing requests. There
are a lot of feelings on worship teams because
these are the artists of the church. We always
have so few problems in the kid’s ministry, in
the parking lot ministry… it’s the worship team
that seems to have the problems. That’s okay
because you’re an artist, and artists are feelers.
The way that we help people who are major
feelers is we are sensitive to them and we serve
them.
[WM] I love your “Reading Rooms, Reading
People” chapter of the book. Tell us more?
[Chad] The person that does it just comes
into the room and sucks all the energy out of
the room and says whatever they want… did
you even notice who was in the room? Did you
notice the climate of the room, if people were
laughing or crying? The worst thing you can do
is be so socially inept that you walk in and you
don’t care about others, its very insensitive. I
think so much about worship teams, when you
come onto that stage at the end of a service,
is about reading where the communicator or
the preacher is at, where the people are and if
they’re receiving this. And a great worship team
at the end of the service is reading the room.
We’ve got to do that all the time.
[WM] Worship artists tend to be ‘creatives’
and pastors can lean towards the ‘controlling’
side of things – how does conflict management
come into play here?
[Chad] You already nailed it, conflict is
inevitable. I’m okay with conflict, in fact. We’re
so afraid of it in the church, but I think that we’re
using the wrong word. Conflict or confrontation
is just an opportunity for clarification. I don’t
need to confront my worship guy, I just want
to clarify that I think we should sing this kind of
song, or that maybe we’ve done that song too
many times. Or if I notice that someone on the
worship team was distracted during the prayer
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